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When I had my car in the city, I took public transit every chance I could because I didn't dare lose my parking spot. I only used the car for out of town trips.
by derwiki 12y ago
When I had my car in the city, I took public transit every chance I could because I didn't dare lose my parking spot. I only used the car for out of town trips. Then I realized how ridiculous it was to own a car that I was stressed out to use. I switched to Zipcar and never looked back (in fact, my local Zipcar garage is closer than how far away I normally had to park).
- bkmartin 12y agoYou mention the Zipcar garage. Why doesn't the city build a couple of these garages? Why don't they offer an affordable solution in that respect? What if they got rid of on street parking all together and created more parking garages so that they took up less acres and they could then reuse that street space for more driving lanes or bike lanes or bus lanes etc? They could then have more parking spots in a given geographical area and better public land use overall. I think that affordable and plentiful parking is vital to most downtown areas. Private industry will only put in so much parking themselves to maximize revenue over and above the purpose of the service itself.